American renaissance; a review of domestic architecture (1904)
Dow, Joy Wheeler · New York, W. T. Comstock · leaf 190
lity of the availa-ble personnel, another and serious phase of the case ispresented, because it is sadly true. Under the ingenu-ous pen of this diarist, we may see James Gordon Ben-nett the elder wrangling with the unliveried servantsfor admission which, we are told, the managementfinally consented… … The Transitional Period At any rate, we realize as never before how disor-ganized the social tabric must have been at the period,and how it had deteriorated trom that of the olderregimes. It is all but ludicrous, that entry in the diarywhere the connoisseurs gather in Barclay Street to paytheir…
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